{"id":970,"date":"2008-09-21T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2008-09-20T04:43:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T09:43:48","slug":"exotic-eats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/21\/exotic-eats\/","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Eats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[qt:\/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.mov \/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.jpg \/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.mov 500 375]<\/p>\n<p>Not your typical food back in the USA, one popular item here is eating scorpion! Jim Lucy, one of the camera operators (based on Chicago) was challenged to eat them while being recorded on video and he was more then happy to. Also part of this little display of questionable\u00a0judgment\u00a0are Mike Wenning (Audio guy from Las Vegas) and Scott Keenan (Director, also from Chicago).<\/p>\n<p>Does Jim actually do it? \u00a0You&#8217;ll have to find out for yourself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I actually was not part of this little\u00a0excursion, but Brian went along and recorded it with his little digital camera. The quality is a bit low, but it&#8217;s still good enough to make your stomach turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[qt:\/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.mov \/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.jpg \/blog\/video\/BeijingNightMarket-Blog.mov 500 375] Not your typical food back in the USA, one popular item here is eating scorpion! Jim Lucy, one of the camera operators (based on Chicago) was challenged to eat them while being recorded on video and he was more then happy to. Also part of this little display of questionable\u00a0judgment\u00a0are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[80,387],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","category-video","tag-beijing-china","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-fE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1942,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/oprah-season-24-kick-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":970,"position":0},"title":"Oprah Season 24 Kick-Off","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"September 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just one more reason that I LOVE Chicago. 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